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Philippines

As far as I know there are Filipinos wandering around here at MH. Just for the fun of it...why not make a Filipino language section, right? So here it is. Just ask away what ever you guys wanna know. Here is a link for common greetings and phrases

Re: Filipino/Tagalog Language

It makes sense to have a tagalog translation since anime is an extremely huge popularity in the Philippines...like extremely huge. There should be a fair amount of people that can understand tagalog and read japanese, it just depends if they are here in this forum or are willing to translate it.

Re: Filipino/Tagalog Language

Most, if not all, Filipinos who can read can also understand English to some extent so I don't think it is necessary that there should be a Tagalog translation when there's an English one available. But if you guys insist, why not? Of course, it's best if it is a Japanese to Filipino translation rather than Japanese->English->Filipino.

BTW, this thread needs a pronunciation guide

Remember:A as in AppleE as in ElephantI as in IndianO as OrangeU as in Cook (LOL, can't think of a word that starts with the letter U that has the same sound as the double O's right now )

If you can speak Japanese or Spanish, you won't have much a problem speaking vowels in Filipino words correctly.

English and Filipino (formerly spelled Pilipino) are the official languages.

Filipino is largely based on Tagalog, with many words adopted from other languages, including English and Spanish.

It was made the national language in 1987 in an attempt to address the fact that no two of the indigenous languages are mutually comprehensible. Filipino is a required subject in schools, but English is more commonly used in higher education.

English is also commonly used in government and commerce.

Some Filipinos are trilingual, speaking an indigenous language, Filipino, and English.

Many Filipinos continue to primarily speak their indigenous language, rather than Filipino.

Very few people speak Spanish, despite the countrys colonial history. (Although a lot of words in Filipino are Spanish in origin)

Spanish never became a widely used or learned language in the Philippines, in contrast to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, because the Spanish friars used the vernacular to introduce Catholicism to the indigenous population. (There are some parts in the country whose people speaks pidgin Spanish, known as Chavacano - Cavite City | Ternate, Cavite | and Zamboanga City)

Arabic and various dialects of Chinese are spoken by a small minority of the population.(Mostly Fukien from Fujian Province of China - about 90% of the Chinese in the country, Mandarin - taught in Chinese Schools, Taiwanese and Cantonese)